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Governmental Servers Wiped? Never!

Posted by timothy on from the but-this-is-in-australia dept.

Geoff writes with a story from Australia: "Eighteen AIX servers purchased from government via auction -- none of them had data removed from them. Ticket Vending and Validation source code, Payroll, Finance, Emails and Customer complaints. All there on every server; they were even nice enough to include some old backup tapes. At ~$14USD per server, it's amazing how cheap personal information has become."

2 of 284 comments (clear)

  1. Aussie Aussie Aussie! by felonius+maximus · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Anyone?

  2. Re:Understandable . . . by gggggggg · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "I've been to Russia and even there"...

    Could you possibly make a more arrogant comment? God save american egocentrism.